Chemical lectures [graphic]

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Title: Chemical lectures [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Thomas Rowlandson
Abstract: "A young man, [Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838) misidentified by Dorothy George as] Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), stands on a platform in a crowded lecture-room, circular in shape, an arc of the wall being shown. He pours liquid from a kettle into a beaker. His table is covered with similar beakers, a tiny retort, &c. Behind him is a door inscribed 'Surrey Institution'. The absorbed audience consists chiefly of pretty women in evening dress and ugly and elderly men. Men are seated on the platform; one is standing. In the foreground (left) a much caricatured elderly man in old-fashioned dress and bag-wig leans forward on his stick, registering anguished jealousy. In his pocket is a book: 'Accum's Lectures' .... Spectators look down from a balcony immediately above the platform."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from Grego. A date of ca. 1810 is given in the British Museum catalogue.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1810.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiv, p. 149.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 28 x 42 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
Subjects: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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